As a bonus, the inimitable Michael Sheen stars as the host of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, and he's great as always. Lawrence (Jay Ellis) learned he's going to become a father, and he reacted so poorly that it ruined his tentative reconciliation with Issa. While the setup seems like a farce -- Ted's hiring is part of an elaborate scheme by an embittered woman looking to ruin the beloved football team of her cheating ex-husband -- Ted's seemingly unshakeable good nature and determination to see the best in everyone, even those actively trying to do him harm, is downright inspiring. Few shows in 2020 had the power and word-of-mouth buzz of I May Destroy You, a dark, deeply personal, and moving masterpiece from Michaela Coel. -Liam Mathews [REVIEW | TRAILER], Jason Segel and Eve Lindley, Dispatches From Elsewhere, Premiered March 1 | Watch on AMC Jason Segel created this experimental dramedy, and How I Met Your Mother fans are in for a real trip. –Megan Vick, Ethan Hawke's blazing performance as the abolitionist John Brown is this historical limited series' main draw, but every element of the highly energized show is top-notch. It's also fun, and still manages to capture the tension of the game show even though you know what's going to happen. It's built around extraordinarily intimate archival footage from the season and unguarded, caustically funny interviews with almost everyone who was even tangentially involved. We'll also tell you where to watch it, link up a TV Guide review (if there is one), and show off a trailer so you can get a taste for yourself. The introduction of Stormfront (Aya Cash) centered Season 2 around a Vought-sponsored "culture war" in which alleged super-terrorists threatened the American way of life, and The Seven's position was that only supe-maintained law and order could solve the problem. What's on TV & Streaming What's on TV & Streaming Top Rated Shows … By the series' stunning end, viewers come to realize that the story in totality was about healing, but the journey there was an unorthodox one as it explored consent, rape, and the ugly parts of sex in a way that was as playful and humorous as it was raw and wrenching. [REVIEW | TRAILER], Michelle McNamara, I'll Be Gone in the Dark, Premiered June 28 | Watch on HBO This six-part series is based on the bestselling book of the same name and explores writer Michelle McNamara's investigation into the identity of the serial predator she called the Golden State Killer, which led to the arrest of a suspect in 2018. I was happy to be proven wrong. This docuseries, directed by acclaimed documentary filmmaker Liz Garbus and executive-produced by McNamara's widower Patton Oswalt, is a tribute to McNamara's life and work as well as a harrowing true-crime documentary. 05.16.2020 01:21:08 S42 E25 - Murder and Scandal in Chicagoland The chilling true crime story of a '85 Chicago Bears legend and the … –Kelly Connolly, There is no show on TV quite like On My Block, which follows a group of Black and Latinx teens in South Central Los Angeles. Schitt's Creek is a show we will watch again and again whenever we need some happiness. The limited series follows the story of a young software engineer, Lily Chan (Sonoya Mizuno), who investigates the secretive development division of the company she works for, which is run by a weird guy named Forest (Nick Offerman), because she believes it's responsible for her boyfriend's murder. Using audio from the Duncan Trussell Family Hour podcast and adding a weird, animated world around it, The Midnight Gospel is basically Rick & Morty meets Dr. Katz. And the soundtrack slaps. All Shows Powered by real life! The last thing he needs is for an alien to land on him and transfer its powers before dying. Who knew we all needed to hear John McEnroe say "thirst trap"? Add in the wrinkle that it's a diverse group of teenage girls whose plane goes down, leaving them stranded on a deserted island, and you've got yourself a bingeable series in which the fun twists and turns are secondary to the individual stories of each character. To hear him talk about relationships while visually capturing the various stages of love — a kiss, a proposal, a fight, a dead body under a sheet being wheeled out of a front door and then dropped by the paramedic (for real!) [REVIEW | TRAILER], Maeve Press, Kayla Cromer, and Josh Thomas, Everything's Gonna Be Okay, Premiered Jan. 16 | Watch on Freeform, Hulu Josh Thomas became a cult TV hero with his series Please Like Me, a coming-of-age comedy with dramatic elements. Keep the celebration of the best TV of 2020 going! He doesn't just bring a glow to everyone around him; he leaves viewers with hope that things can get better and that doing your best is enough. I couldn't believe it either. [TRAILER], Premiered October 4 | Watch on Showtime The Good Lord Bird navigates a terrible chapter of American history with humor and energy usually reserved for heist films. Feeling abandoned and forlorn at the holidays, Dash and Lily connect through a red Moleskin notebook, passing it back and forth and baring their souls before they ever set eyes on each other. Rather than feeling like a lecture, The Great feels like a call to action, and it couldn't have come at a better time. And it's a hoot. -Allison Picurro [REVIEW | TRAILER], Premiered September 3 | Watch on HBO Max Look, we know it's weird. Who hasn't been there? [TRAILER], Premiered November 11 | Watch on Netflix You don't need to be on psychedelics to enjoy this absurd sketch show from Aussie faves Aunty Donna, because the frenetic pace and eccentric energy will already make you think you are. Starting with a mystery and a ticking clock, P-Valley follows several characters but focuses chiefly on a woman named Autumn Night (Elarica Johnson), who is on the run from some kind of undisclosed trouble and winds up at a country juke/strip joint named The Pynk. [REVIEW | TRAILER], Netflix's 2020 Original Movies and TV Shows: A Complete Guide, Premiered Jan. 23 | Watch on CBS All Access Star Trek: Picard isn't Star Trek: The Next Generation, nor does it have any ambition to be. It's got that summertime, carefree, adventures-in-the-city feel down pat, if you'd like to live vicariously through its characters. In 12 stunning, sometimes unsettling episodes, the series follows what happens after hip young writer Arabella, played by Coel, realizes she'd been drugged and raped while out drinking in her home city of London. Most of it is coy cat-and-mouse, but every once in a while some genuine connections form. From Showtime's take on John Brown to a YA meet-cute at a bookstore. The season is packed with big laughs, stand-out episodes (the one set at the sponsored wedding of John Early's Elliot is an instant classic), and exceptional performances from a cast of actors who have fully grown into their roles. More Photo Galleries. [REVIEW | TRAILER], Premiered November 19 | Watch on HBO Max It's OK to watch someone during the worst time of their life, really! [6 REASONS TO WATCH CHEER | TRAILER], Niko Guardado, Brandon Larracuente, Elle Paris, and Emily Tosta, Party of Five, Premiered Jan. 8 | Watch on Freeform, Hulu We didn't need a reboot of the mid-'90s drama, but we're glad we got it. Tony McNamara, the screenwriter of The Favourite, penned this satirical look at Catherine the Great (Elle Fanning) as she ascended to power in Russia, and it's based on facts. But despite these challenges, and their own struggles with romance and identity, Emma and Lyn's love for each other is never forgotten, and Vida ended with an empowering message, reminding viewers that hope and healing are never completely out of reach — as long as you're willing to work for them. Fueled by the mistreatment of Indigenous women that he witnessed while working as a probation officer, Kipp started the gym to help women and girls learn to defend themselves, and to provide a drug and alcohol-free haven in an addiction-plagued society. -Kaitlin Thomas [REVIEW | TRAILER], Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Lee Rodriguez, and Ramona Young, Never Have I Ever, Premiered April 27 | Watch on Netflix Mindy Kaling co-created this teenage rom-com about an Indian-American girl named Devi who enters her sophomore year of high school determined to shed her nerdy image and get a boyfriend. The season finale alone is the kind of pure euphoric magic that will have you wishing you could be 14 all over again. There are twists, there are turns, and an uncomfortable feeling that these two people are either doing the exact wrong thing or the exact right thing, and that energy makes you feel like you're part of the affair. Austin Abrams and Midori Francis play the eponymous Dash and Lily in Netflix's adorable adaptation of David Levithan and Rachel Cohn's YA novel Dash & Lily's Book of Dares. - Liam Mathews [REVIEW | TRAILER], Premiered March 16 | Watch on HBO This limited series, written by The Wire's David Simon and Ed Burns, is based on a book by legendary novelist Philip Roth. Also, there's lots of skin. Plus, Moira (Catherine O'Hara) is going to make her return to Sunrise Bay (seriously, how do we watch that?). And even though you'll bang your head over Cassie's decisions and inability to play it cool at all, the slick show is too fun to stop watching. [JOSH THOMAS INTERVIEW | TRAILER], Season 1 premiered January 14; Season 2 premiered June 12 | Watch on Netflix Despite being set well after the apocalypse 200 years in the future when humanity is forced to live underground because giant man-eating mutants roam the surface of the Earth, this charming animated series based on a webcomic is pure delight. It revealed to fans what it might be like if their favorite caped crusaders had corporate backers and weren't all altruistic saviors. Cozy up to the new TV shows in January 2021. But co-creators Peter Gould and Vince Gilligan dug deep into Saul Goodman's (Bob Odenkirk) past for another fantastic character study that wasn't about growth; it was about change. The storylines are tightly crafted and highly believable, and the actual stripping is truly jaw-dropping as the actors perform acrobatic moves that seem to defy physics. Netflix's best young adult series deftly mixes coming-of-age tales and teenage hijinks with the harsh reality of growing up in a crime-ridden neighborhood that has taken far more from its residents than it's given. It's not perfect, but it's still must-see TV. Well, you'll just have to wait as the details are parsed out. I May Destroy You also took on sexual violence through the perspectives of Arabella's friends Terry (Weruche Opia) and Kwame (Paapa Essiedu). –Krutika Mallikarjuna, Netflix's animated series Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts might be the most hopeful show to emerge this year. Watch WE tv's can't miss reality series On Demand. [REVIEW | TRAILER], Premiered November 26 | Watch on HBO Max Kaley Cuoco ditches Penny of The Big Bang Theory and her Priceline pitchman persona in favor of something a little more daring and fun. And with Rhea Seehorn's Emmy-worthy performance as Kim (for which Emmy voters stupidly didn't even nominate her), it's one of the most carefully constructed character arcs of all time, Walter White included. [REVIEW | TRAILER], Premiered Jan. 18 | Watch on BBC America The latest from the incredible BBC documentary team goes from continent to continent to highlight the variation of the planet's wildlife in this new series. –Tim Surette, A show about chess may seem like it would be a snooze, but Scott Frank's miniseries The Queen's Gambit makes it look like war. –Tim Surette, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Poorna Jagannathan, and Richa Moorjani, Never Have I Ever, Never Have I Ever was one of the few bright spots in a dark spring. Song Exploder. Do I need to even tell you that things do not go as planned? Though they are pieces in a bigger puzzle about Arabella's experience, their own sex lives are also muddied by questions of consent and experiences with sexual violence. Jenna Clause, Sarah Pidgeon, and Mia Healey, The Wilds, Premiered December 11 | Watch on Amazon Prime Video This surprise survival thriller doesn't hide its inspiration -- ABC's game-changing drama Lost -- but unlike other imitators that came before it, it follows the formula so well it doesn't matter. There are a few scenes — Elizabeth's "I'm not like the other girls" moment in Episode 3 and the dazzling U.S. Championship in Episode 5 — that I watch a few times a week because they're so good. –Tim Surette, Better Things has always centered around the joys and hardships of simply waking up and existing in the world each day, and its fourth season was its most human yet. –Noelene Clark, The Last Dance is not without its faults. Javier’s life is not going well. But that's the fun of the dark comedy, from Fleabag's Vicky Jones, in which old college flames fulfill a pact they made and run off together on a whim 15 years later, leaving their lives behind to recapture the love they had for each other as teenagers. The best part of the show is that the challenges they face are systemic rather than from a few bad racist apples, and the stories vary wildly so they don't feel repetitive. Even though the world came to a standstill in 2020, television kept pumping out television like nothing had changed. From Lovecraft Country and Cheer to The Baby-Sitter's Club and Run, these are the best new shows of 2020 on Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, and everywhere else you watch TV. Portal into the human psyche? Yeah! By that grammatically correct sentence, I mean this HBO limited series stars Mark Ruffalo in two roles. Check out TV Guide's roundups of the best episodes of the year, the performances we couldn't stop talking about, and all the shows we … There was actually some great TV that helped us through the most turbulent times. [TRAILER], Premiered October 23 | Watch on Netflix Scott Frank (Godless) carefully adapts the 1983 novel about a female chess prodigy in the 1950s and 1960s, following author Walter Tavis' lead and taking a subject that should be boring and turning it into a thriller. Netflix, December 15. Summer TV 2020: Premiere Dates for New and Returning Shows (Photos) Summer is in full swing, and everyone is staying at home as much as possible to prevent the spread of COVID-19. It's sentimental, funny, and an authentic portrayal of the teenage experience. [TRAILER]. Our girls are finally growing up. There's an element of horror to the show as the walls close in on Suzie and she retreats into some self-destructive behavior in strange places, and the anxiety it produces is almost too much, in a great way. Tender, hilarious, and pulse-quickening, the show is one of the year's best offerings for making viewers realize how much we have in common with these remarkable people who've found a way to turn tragedies into triumphs. We can't change our past, but we still have a say in our future, and no show portrays that better than On My Block. It all comes together for one of 2020's best new shows. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex stepped down as working royals in early 2020 with the proviso they would meet with the monarch a year on to discuss how … [REVIEW | TRAILER], Courtney B. Vance, Jurnee Smollett, and Jonathan Majors, Lovecraft Country, Premiered August 16 | Watch on HBO Misha Green adapted Matt Ruff's book about a young Black man who goes searching for his missing father in 1950s Jim Crow America, not knowing that the turf he explores is not only populated by racists, but creatures torn out of the pages of literature. Cheer celebrates the power of the human spirit; every Navarro cheerleader featured in Cheer overcame an intense personal battle — not only to make the team, but also to stay on the team and prove they are the best at what they do. Find out when your favorite TV shows are returning, and discover when the most anticipated new TV shows are premiering on our TV Premiere Dates calendar. S42 E26 - Down Payment on Death The sting operation to catch a woman in a murder-for-hire plot is filmed for a reality-TV series. The Best TV Shows of 2020 The coronavirus may have shifted Hollywood's film business, but the world of television was still able to thrive. Find out when the most anticipated new and returning shows of 2020 will premiere with our calendar of TV and streaming premiere dates. Only the savviest of cultural connoisseurs knew that the series, about the goings-on of a strip club in a fictional town in the Mississippi Delta, was an adaptation of playwright Katori Hall's work Pussy Valley, and that behind the pasties and G-strings was a layered, complex, and expertly crafted drama about women we usually ignore. The difference-maker with Love Fraud was that directors Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady were embedded with Smith's marks, who banded together to hunt him down, unspooling the sordid tale of twists and turns as it happened, and concluding with a mesmerizing finale interview with Smith that is one of the most awkward things you'll ever see. May we all be blessed with La'Darius' confidence, Gabi's work ethic, and Morgan's determination; nothing could stop us. The series, which has been renewed for a second season because sometimes we can have nice things, faithfully adapts Ann M. Martin's classic children's books while also sprinkling in some more contemporary issues for those gumptious baby-sitters to deal with through their kindness-first approach to caregiving. In Season 3, Search Party was smarter and darker than it's ever been, pushing Dory (Alia Shawkat) and Drew (John Reynolds) to their breaking points after they're put on trial for murder. It's an incredible document of NBA history that basketball fans will find totally riveting. As we approach the final days of 2020, TV Guide has rounded up the top 25 shows of the year, but rather than rank them — how does one compare the hilarious antics of What We Do in the Shadows to something as emotionally powerful as I May Destroy You? [TRAILER], Premiered November 10 | Watch on NetflixThis one is for the holiday lovers who might be feeling a bit disenchanted in 2020, even at what is supposed to be the most wonderful time of the year. -Liam Mathews [TRAILER], Premiered June 21 | Watch on HBO You probably remember Perry Mason as an imposing defense attorney somewhere inside that imposing suit as he boiled down murder cases and, like clockwork, wrung out a confession from someone who wasn't his client to prove his client's innocence. Thomas has schizophrenia, and Dominick has PTSD from taking care of him, serving in the Gulf War, and numerous other hardships. Winter, spring, summer and fall - we'll guide you all year round with the very best and most comprehensive coming soon TV shows. What follows is a dark comedy that doubles as a murder mystery as Cuoco's character tries to piece together what happened, evade authorities, and find the murderer. It's a truly wild journey that's the absolute perfect binge for right now. Cianfrance is one of the heaviest filmmakers in the game. [REVIEW | TRAILER], Premiered August 14 | Watch on Apple TV+If any show can be credited with restoring faith in humanity after the whirlwind of 2020, it is Ted Lasso. Kipo's message of positivity and inclusivity is an unexpected salve for the hostility and divisiveness that has infected our country this year. This year has put the world through the ringer, and we're looking forward to putting the past 12 months behind us. Tamar Braxton's new WE tv reality show Get Ya Life! The rest is made up to make it fun and entertaining. As of September 2020, too, Disney Plus added a co-watching feature called GroupWatch, letting you watch a movie or TV show with up to six other … This is enjoyably weird and incredibly insightful. We Are Who We Are (TV Series 2020) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. In other words, it's simply the best. The series deals with some intensely heavy topics, but it has a sly sense of humor that will make you laugh when you're least expecting it. The eight-episode season of private-eyeing and courtroom drama is bolstered by a wonderful cast, which includes Tatiana Maslany, John Lithgow, and Stephen Root, and a robust budget that brings Depression-era L.A. to gorgeous life under the watchful direction of Game of Thrones' Tim Van Patten. Throw most of that out the window, as HBO reboots Perry Mason with The Americans' Matthew Rhys -- who's absolutely terrific -- playing the iconic TV character as a slightly disheveled, grumpy, boozing, f---ing malcontent who's working a case about a murdered baby in a dirty, grimy 1930s Los Angeles. This is exactly the kind of documentary that people should be talking about. Ted Lasso. El vecino is expected to make its debut in 2020 on Netflix. John Wilson's... uhhh, show? Somewhere underneath about 40 pounds of unkempt beard and a layer of caked-on dirt is Ethan Hawke like you've never seen him. As Harmon, Anya Taylor-Joy again shows why many peg her to be a future Oscar winner in one of the great performances of the year, and Frank's direction and visual palette are entrancing, particularly for those of us who are fans of smart '60s clothes and dazzling wallpaper. Experiment? In celebration of their lives and contributions, TV Guide honors the stars we lost in 2020. [REVIEW | TRAILER], Premiered June 7 | Watch on HBO Rising super-talent Michaela Coel created, writes, directs, and stars in this timely and unflinching drama made in partnership with the BBC. That doesn't say much, but it's great. Next up is "Law School Magic," which claims to be part The Breakfast Club and part The Chronicles of Narnia, and the final special is "Parking Lot Wedding," and I'm not even going to tell you what happens because that would spoil the magic. The limited series, which will likely bring FX a slew of Emmy nominations in the acting categories, is largely told through the eyes of Cate Blanchett's conservative homemaker and hopeful politician Phyllis Schlafly, who staunchly believes a woman's place is in the home even as she is quite often ... not in the home. Season 5, the series' best season yet, revealed the true tragic antihero of Better Call Saul is actually Kim Wexler. has been postponed due to the star's recent hospitalization. Listing of what's on WE tv today, tonight and this week. The fascinating stories that stem from life inside the boxing club's ring are made all the more powerful due to the urgency of their plights. At some point it becomes clear she's managed to convince herself she was not at all involved in the two murders she very much committed, and the way it culminates is absolutely bone-chilling. [TRAILER], Premiered July 12 | Watch on Starz The, uhhh, P stands for p---y. 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